Austin Realtor

Austin, Texas is one of America’s truly unique cities. The capital of Texas is not nearly as big as Houston or Dallas, but its spirit is large. After all, Austin has a great mix of artists, musicians, professors, students and technology gurus. Known for its eclectic live music and street performers, Austin attracts many artists and live music aficionados. Austin’s culture is augmented by the fact that it has a robust intellectual side with tech savvy engineers and computer science geeks. The University of Texas at Austin fuels Austin’s well known technology and defense industry. Ask an Austin realtor about lower housing costs. Indeed, Austin has much lower housing costs than California’s Silicon Valley, for instance. Of course, Austin’s housing costs are higher than rural Texans care to admit.

An Austin realtor should know that the big concentration of high-tech corporations made Austin vulnerable to the dot-com boom and later crisis. However, Austin is recovering very fast. Austin plays host to some of the biggest and most expansive high-tech companies in the world. For instance, IBM, Dell, Motorola, Apple, Hewlett-Packard, Vignette, AMD, Silicon Laboratories, Samsung, Sun Microsystems, United Devices and Intel all have a very big presence here. Of course, Austin has smaller, more independent and small business too. An Austin realtor should take note that rapid development is expanding Austin’s real estate market.

Austin’s culture, however, is rooted deeply to its love and passion for live music. People travel all over the nation and world to experience, Austin’s eclectic mix of music, well suited for any taste. Sixth Street, is one of those famous streets that often has live musicians playing right on the streets. Live music can be heard billowing out of the many clubs like hot mesquite smoke. Austinites love performance theatre, as well, and hold many festivals celebrating performance art. The average Austin realtor should know that Austin is a weird place, ultimately. Weird in a good way.

Austinites like to keep it weird in the sense that they love to celebrate differences and take pride in the fact they are mostly non-conformists. An Austin realtor knows that eccentric artists are just as vital to Austin’s spirit as its engineers and computer scientists. This creative mix of people is what makes Austin so great. It’s not hard to find a good political or intellectual debate nor is it difficult to find creative music or technological innovation.

R. Eric Bramlett
One Source Realty
Mobile: 512.289.1161
Office: 512.637.9235